A small number of firms have a large market share in the Austrian food retailing market. Market concentration has been growing over the last years which has raised concerns about market power. Previous studies on price setting behaviour in the food retailing market were at the national level and...

Im Jahr 2004 analysierte das WIFO erstmals die ökonomische Bedeutung der Wassernutzung (gemäß Art. 5 und Anhang III WRRL) für die Sektoren Landwirtschaft, Produktion und Dienstleistungen, Energieerzeugung, Abwasserentsorgung und Wasserversorgung. Im vorliegenden Projekt wurde die Analyse...

In this paper I analyse the export behaviour of firms located in different Central European countries (Austria, Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia) with respect to migration. Ever since the seminal article by Gould (1994) on immigrant links to their home country and due to empirical research...

In this paper we analyse the role of ethnic networks in the location decision of migrants to the EU 15 at the regional level. Using a random parameters logit specification we find a substantially positive effect of ethnic networks on the location decision of migrants. The effect is, however,...